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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUCB Linguist Lakoff: What Obama needs to do in the debate:
http://mobile.alternet.org/alternet/#!/entry/lakoff-what-obama-needs-to-do-in-tomorrows-debate,507c4bc2d7fc7b567018aef8/3Good article! Talks about the 95% study showing 95% rely on government during their lives. Explains how we're all in this together, versus the misguided conservative notion that individuals can create their own success solely by dint of unassisted, individual effort. Lakoff is excellent.
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UCB Linguist Lakoff: What Obama needs to do in the debate: (Original Post)
amborin
Oct 2012
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Blue Belle
(5,912 posts)1. The link isn't working...
At least not for me.
It is from alter net.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)2. The link won't load for me; but ...
the topic gives me a lazy opening (i.e., I won't have to start a thread) ...
I pondered, this weekend after hearing the gop/rw familiar claim, "People vote Democrat(ic) because they want the government to give them free stuff", what if our response was:
"Okay ... So what? Is the food that is worked hard for, somehow more nutritious because it is worked for? Does it taste better? Is the housing that we work to provide, somehow more sheltering because it was worked for? Is it more comfortable?
Imagine what kind of world we would be living in if the vast majority (or even all) of our earnings went to what we WANTED; rather than, what we NEEDED just to survive."
Imagine what kind of world we would be living in if the vast majority (or even all) of our earnings went to what we WANTED; rather than, what we NEEDED just to survive."
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)3. Here's a link that works
amborin
(16,631 posts)5. thanks